Brooklyn 99 rewatch post
Feb. 4th, 2019 06:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerJulie has discovered that one of her friends has never seen Brooklyn 99 (dramatic indrawn gasp), so we’ve begun weekly Thursday night B99 viewings to fill this gap in her viewing history - which means that we’re rewatching season one at the same time as we’re watching season 5 for the first time, which makes for a fascinating comparison. The characters have evolved so much!
At the beginning of season one, Charles’ main characteristic is “in love with Rosa.” He’s not even a foodie yet! Jake is irritatingly immature, Amy is a painfully obvious brown-noser, Rosa is a cipher and also kind of mean, Captain Holt…
Actually, Captain Holt was always perfect. And Terry came out of the gate pretty much already Terry. (Love the bit where Amy gets him to act as a police sketch artist and he’s asking the victim of a purse-snatching, “What were his eyes like? Haunted? In pain?”) They’re probably why I kept watching even though the first time I tried B99 I described it as “moderately amusing, but not enough that I'm likely to continue on with it.”
But I did, and they’ve all grown so much! Charles is no longer in love with Rosa - how often does anyone get over a crush in a TV show? I spent the first season gritting my teeth over their obviously inevitable romance, which never materialized, and it was like a choir of angels singing on high when I realized it never would. Charles is actually together with someone else! Rosa has revealed new depths of vulnerability and also weirdness, like the bit in season 5 where they investigate a crime at a convention and Rosa gets hooked on urban fantasy because all the cover models dress like her.
Side thought: Rosa Diaz, cop by day, fighter of supernatural forces that threaten her city by night. I would buy it.
(We’ve gotten to the part where Rosa comes out as bi, where Jake suggests a possible speech that she could give to her parents and gets way into it, like, “Have you been planning a coming out speech yourself, Jake?” into it.)
By season five, Amy and Holt have a good working relationship and Amy only sucks up in ways that are kind of adorable in their comparative mildness. (Honestly, the fact that Amy’s early attempts to ingratiate herself with Holt didn’t turn Holt against her for life show Holt’s high quality as a person.) Possibly Jake siphoned off some of Amy’s desire to please Holt, and at that diluted quantity it spurred some of his newfound maturity.
Gina Linetti… okay, Gina Linetti is exactly the same as ever, and she has never been my favorite. Definitely a little sorry when she reappeared halfway through season five. But I guess a show can’t give you everything you want, & probably shouldn’t; Gina fans deserve their happiness too.
At the beginning of season one, Charles’ main characteristic is “in love with Rosa.” He’s not even a foodie yet! Jake is irritatingly immature, Amy is a painfully obvious brown-noser, Rosa is a cipher and also kind of mean, Captain Holt…
Actually, Captain Holt was always perfect. And Terry came out of the gate pretty much already Terry. (Love the bit where Amy gets him to act as a police sketch artist and he’s asking the victim of a purse-snatching, “What were his eyes like? Haunted? In pain?”) They’re probably why I kept watching even though the first time I tried B99 I described it as “moderately amusing, but not enough that I'm likely to continue on with it.”
But I did, and they’ve all grown so much! Charles is no longer in love with Rosa - how often does anyone get over a crush in a TV show? I spent the first season gritting my teeth over their obviously inevitable romance, which never materialized, and it was like a choir of angels singing on high when I realized it never would. Charles is actually together with someone else! Rosa has revealed new depths of vulnerability and also weirdness, like the bit in season 5 where they investigate a crime at a convention and Rosa gets hooked on urban fantasy because all the cover models dress like her.
Side thought: Rosa Diaz, cop by day, fighter of supernatural forces that threaten her city by night. I would buy it.
(We’ve gotten to the part where Rosa comes out as bi, where Jake suggests a possible speech that she could give to her parents and gets way into it, like, “Have you been planning a coming out speech yourself, Jake?” into it.)
By season five, Amy and Holt have a good working relationship and Amy only sucks up in ways that are kind of adorable in their comparative mildness. (Honestly, the fact that Amy’s early attempts to ingratiate herself with Holt didn’t turn Holt against her for life show Holt’s high quality as a person.) Possibly Jake siphoned off some of Amy’s desire to please Holt, and at that diluted quantity it spurred some of his newfound maturity.
Gina Linetti… okay, Gina Linetti is exactly the same as ever, and she has never been my favorite. Definitely a little sorry when she reappeared halfway through season five. But I guess a show can’t give you everything you want, & probably shouldn’t; Gina fans deserve their happiness too.
